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CLOCKWISE FROM LEFT: Lush blooms decorated the ceremony and reception areas; Corrine wanted a warm family feel for the day; a lacey pattern embellished the cake; the outdoor ceremony overlooked Victoria's picturesque Inner Harbour. In September 2010, David had a ring designed and, packing the ring and a bottle of champagne in his backpack, booked a weekend in Whistler. The weather was cold and windy the day he insisted the two of them hike up the mountain and, as David recalls, Corrine was rather unimpressed. When they reached the mountaintop, the sun came out just as David went down on one knee, ring in hand. A stunned but thrilled Corrine readily accepted, launching their two-year engagement. "We couldn't decide what kind of wedding we wanted, or if we'd elope," admits Corrine. Then, a year-and-a-half after David's proposal, the two spent a weekend in Victoria, visiting the Inn at Laurel Point, where Corrine had once spent the night as a child. That same weekend, they booked the hotel as the venue for their wedding, securing all their vendors, including Vancouver wedding planner Soha Lavin of CountDown Events, within the two weeks that followed, Clearly, September has become an auspicious month for Corrine and David, and on the afternoon of September 8, 2012, they gathered on the patio at the Inn at Laurel Point with 125 family and friends to solemnize their union. "I'd been a bridesmaid eight times by the time I got married at 33," says Corrine. "I knew what I wanted, which was for everyone to have fun and to keep things moving, so people weren't waiting around." As she and David posed for photos near the inn's garden, guests enjoyed cocktails on the patio to the music of guitarist Paul Filek. Dinner, dancing and speeches followed, but the moment the couple remembers most fondly is the one where they caught sight of each other just as Corrine began walking down the aisle. "I was so excited for him to see me at that moment," she says. "I knew she'd look incredible," says David, admitting he got all choked up when he first laid eyes on his beautiful bride. "It's having all your favourite people in one spot, everyone so happy for you," Corrine continues. "I was so excited to marry Dave, to not have any doubts and to just be so sure." The couple enjoyed a two-week honeymoon in France before returning home to start a family of their own. And as this issue of Real Weddings went to press, Corrine and David were relishing their new role as parents to their newborn son. rw realweddings.ca p48-51_Corrine & David wedding.indd 51 51 13-09-23 11:17 AM